> Germany has spent $700B on renewable energy and need 250GW of power.

Germany has just over 250GW of installed capacity. [0] indicates peak power is 75GW. Replicating the Olkiluoto EPR build for 75GW of capacity would have cost perhaps 500B EUR.

[1] speculates about what would have happened if Germany had retained its nuclear power stations and performed a fleet build-out.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-industry-has-lar...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14786451.2024.2...